Blood-Horse Publications has announced The Blood-Horse will publish a Dec. 26, 2009-Jan. 2, 2010 combined issue featuring a "Year in Review", recapping the top industry stories of 2009, and include a "Auctions Digest."

With the economy struggling and the buy-back/no bid rates at Thoroughbred auctions rising, the issue of unwanted horses is a growing concern. Antony Beck, president of Gainesway Farm in Lexington, decided to try to do something about by sponsoring an adoption service on the Web site of The Blood-Horse's sister publication, The Horse (www.TheHorse.com).

Due to increased interest in the Feb. 3 issue of <i>The Blood-Horse</i> with Barbaro on the cover, Blood-Horse Publications printed additional copies of the magazine that were offered on a single copy basis.

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced Jan. 5 that Mike Jensen of the Philadelphia <i>Inquirer</i> has won the 2006 Media Eclipse Award for writing in the features/enterprise category for "The Man Whose Job is Saving Barbaro," a profile of Dr. Dean Richardson, which was published May 28, 2006. Honorable mention in the feature/enterprise category went to Josh Pons for "Merryland, a Diary" which appeared in <i>The Blood-Horse</i> Dec. 3, 2005.

Dick Jerardi of the Philadelphia <i>Daily News</i> won the 2006 media Eclipse Award for writing in the news/commentary category for his series of articles on the events surrounding the injury and surgery on Barbaro, and <i>The Blood-Horse</i> received two honorable mentions in the same category for columns that appeared in the magazine.

<i>The Blood-Horse</i>, the industry's foremost and fastest provider of racing and breeding news and information, has added free RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as an extension of its Web site, bloodhorse.com.

Peter Thomas Chew, an author, journalist and former correspondent for <i>The Blood-Horse</i> died July 16 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., of complications from a heart attack. He was 82.

In an effort to educate Kentucky residents and legislators on the importance of the horse industry to the Commonwealth's economy, Blood-Horse Publications is providing each member of the Kentucky Senate and House of Representatives with an annual subscription to <i>The Blood-Horse</i>, the company's flagship publication and the oldest continually published North American Thoroughbred magazine.

Blood-Horse Publications, a multimedia publishing company that traces its roots to 1916, has officially launched <i>The Blood-Horse Electronic Edition</i>, a complete new digital edition of <i>The Blood-Horse</i>, the Thoroughbred industry's leading weekly news and information magazine.

Blood-Horse Publications won several top honors June 12 during the American Horse Publications awards presentations in Lexington, Ky. This years event was dubbed the 2004 AHP <ETH>Red, White & Bluegrass" seminar.

<i>By Harry Miller</i> -- For more than 22 years, the first ad in the Classified Advertising section each and every week was always for Lou Salerno's Questroyal Farm. Lou has now decided to devote all his energies to another of his passions, fine art. He has passed the torch to Chris Bernhard, who calls his farm Hidden Lake.

Blood-Horse Publications has launched a new tool designed to aid users in making breeding, auction, and other important purchasing decisions. The new StallionRegister.com provides 24-hour online comprehensive statistical information on over 450 leading stallions and on 2,500 stallions actively standing around the world.

Blood-Horse Publications announces the acquisition of a new 46,000 square-foot building, located at 3101 Beaumont Centre Circle on land that was originally part of the historic 4,000-acre Beaumont Farm.

Ray Paulick, editor in chief of <i>The Blood-Horse</i> and executive vice president and editorial director of Blood-Horse Publications, has been selected as the American Association of Equine Practitioners' (AAEP) equine industry representative on the group's board of directors.

The Blood-Horse has a new logo and adopted a new corporate name to better reflect the diversity of the company, according to publisher Stacy V. Bearse, president and CEO. Previously operated as The Blood-Horse Inc., the company will now operate as Blood-Horse Publications.

<i>The Blood-Horse</i>'s own head-to-head competition, where executive editor Dan Liebman and managing editor Evan Hammonds were given mythical $1,000 bankrolls to bet the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships, was no contest.

Ray Paulick, editor-in-chief of The Blood-Horse magazine and author of the recently released book <i>Sunday Silence</i>, has donated his entire compensation for writing the book to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation and to Central Kentucky Riding for the Handicapped.

Barbara D. Livingston's photo of a Thoroughbred during a workout, which appeared on the cover of the March/April 2001 issue of The Thoroughbred Chronicle, has won the Eclipse Award for Photography. This is Livingston's second Eclipse Award for photography.

bloodhorse.com, the Thoroughbred industry's leading online Web site for Thoroughbred racing and breeding news and information, is now offering free daily Leading Sire Lists for Leading Sires, Leading Broodmare Sires, First Crop Sires, Second Crop Sires, and Third Crop Sires.